Un pequeño gesto, cada día, puede cambiar el mundo
Sinopsis
This inspiring picture book retells the story of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greta Thunberg – the Swedish teenager who has led a global movement to raise awareness about the world’s climate crisis – using allegory to make this important topic accessible to young children.
Greta is a little girl who lives in a beautiful forest threatened by Giants. When the Giants first came to the forest, they chopped down trees to make houses. Then they chopped down more trees and made even bigger homes. The houses grew into towns and the towns grew into cities, until now there is hardly any forest left. Greta knows she has to help the animals who live in the forest, but how? Luckily, Greta has an idea…
A section at the back explains that, in reality, the fight against the ‘giants’ isn’t over and explains how you can help Greta in her fight.
This book has been printed sustainably in the UK on 100% recycled paper. By buying a copy of this book, you are making a donation of 3% of the cover price to Greenpeace UK.
Opinión
“No one is to small to make a difference”.
Greta es una niña que vive feliz, rodeada de animales y naturaleza. Su vida es sencilla pero bonita. Tiene todo lo que necesita para vivir y vive en armonía con su entorno.
Un día, llegaron los gigantes y con ellos comenzaron a desaparecer los árboles y en su lugar, surgieron casas cada vez más grandes. Poco a poco, los animales comenzaron a huir hasta que ya no les quedó a donde ir.
Impotentes veían como su hábitat era destruido sin que pudieran hacer nada por evitarlo. Preocupados, recurren a Greta y le piden ayuda. Y así comienza la lucha de esta niña por hacerse escuchar. Quiere mostrarles a los gigantes el daño que están causando con su comportamiento y la necesidad de tomar medidas cuanto antes para revertirlo.
Basada en la historia real de Greta Thunberg, este cuento infantil tan bonito y bien ilustrado explica de forma sencilla, los efectos tan devastadores que está teniendo la acción indiscriminada del hombre en la naturaleza.
Greta nos anima a todos, independientemente de la edad que tengamos, a que la ayudemos en su lucha para frenar a los gigantes. Que, entre todos juntos, aunque sea con un pequeño gesto, cada día, podemos conseguir cambiar el mundo. Que en la unión está la fuerza.
Emileen and Jilly Bean follows the story of a young girl named Emileen and her dog, Jilly Bean. Using beautiful illustrations and catchy poetry, A.R. Taylor takes readers of all ages on a whimsical, humorous journey that encourages them to use their imagination. A great gift for any occasion but a special standout for baby showers, birthdays, and holidays, Emileen and Jilly Bean is a tale of friendship and unconditional love that will endure for lifetimes.
Opinión
Emilleen despierta de la siesta llena de energías y con muchas ganas de jugar con su mascota y fiel amigo, Jilly Bean. Juntos realizan una gran variedad de actividades como ir a clases o al mercado mientras ríen, juegan y se divierten mucho, a pesar de las travesuras Jilly Bean.
Es un libro infantil bonito que entremezcla fantasía y realidad de una forma muy original. Está escrito con rima como en una poesía e invita a soñar a quienes lo leen. Creo que gustará mucho a todos los niños y especialmente a aquellos que tienen como mascota a un perro.
Las ilustraciones son tan bonitas y abarcan cada página, con colores cálidos, suaves a la vez que llamativos, recuerdan mucho a esos días de verano donde se puede jugar al aire libre, sin límites de horarios. Una historia que también nos habla de la amistad y de lo bonito e importante que es compartir con los demás.
Me ha gustado mucho la mezcla de elementos actuales con otros típicos de cuentos clásicos y que nos deja como resultado un cuento infantil que resulta intemporal e ideal para regalo.
Cuando la venganza es lo más importante en tu vida
Sinopsis
‘Your daughter is dead.’
When Kat Cavanaugh hears the words every mother dreads, her perfect world shatters. She takes in the beautiful long blonde hair, torn yellow dress and chipped blue nail-varnish. It can’t be real.
And then the police add the word ‘suicide’. But Kat refuses to believe them.
Even when they show her the familiar looping handwriting and smudged ink on the note her little girl left behind. She knows her bubbly, vivacious daughter would never take her own life.
As she searches Grace’s perfume-scented room, filled with smiling photos, she uncovers secrets her daughter had been hiding. Secrets that make her wonder how well she really knew the woman her only child was becoming.
Kat’s determined to find out what really happened to Grace on the night she died, even if it means facing her own troubled past. But as she gets closer to the terrible truth, Kat finds herself faced with an unthinkable question: there was no way she could have protected Grace – or was there?
Opinión
“There´s a line that every parent haphazardly walks: the line where we give our children enough freedom to allow them to evolve, while at the same time guarding them from danger”.
La joven Grace, de 17 años, es hija única. Después de desaparecer, la encuentran fallecida a los pies de un precipicio. La policía apunta a un suicidio, pues la chica llevaba una breve nota de despedida en el bolsillo. La madre de Grace, Kat, no puede creer que su hija haya sido capaz de semejante acto.
Para Kat su hija era el centro de su vida, la que le impulsó a cambiar de forma de vivir. Su desaparición le trae un enorme vacío y la necesidad de profundizar en lo que pasó a Grace en las horas anteriores a su fallecimiento.
Al mismo tiempo que Kat descubre que hay partes de la vida de Grace que no conocía, el libro expone aspectos básicos de la infancia y juventud de aquella. Nacida y criada en el seno de una familia pobre, su relación con la madre fue muy difícil. Esta siempre le trasladó que era una niña mala y problemática.
Kat asimiló desde jovencita su tendencia a la violencia, derivando en un desorden de conducta que llevó a que se le diagnosticara personalidad antisocial. Sin embargo, todo esto no evitó que conociera al rico Charles, se casara con él y tuvieran una hija.
La terapia y, sobre todo, su hija, permitieron a Kat mantenerse serena y equilibrada. La pérdida de este pilar fundamental no hace que se desestabilice completamente porque se enfocará en esa indagación sobre las partes desconocidas de la vida de Grace. Su idea es que alguien tuvo que ver con la muerte de su hija. Sospecha del entorno más próximo a la joven: del novio, de su mejor amiga, etc. En este proceso, Charles le confesará que Grace ha estado en tratamiento por iniciativa de ella. La chica estaba agobiada porque se veía incapaz de entablar buenas relaciones con los demás.
Kate se planteará qué tipo de madre ha sido con su hija y si ha sido capaz de transmitirle adecuadamente el amor que sentía hacia ella. No entiende que la chica tuviera secretos con ella que no mantenía con su padre.
Hasta saber cómo se encontraba Grace antes de caer por el precipicio, Kat actuará sin escrúpulos, perjudicando a determinadas personas. Descubrirá que su hija no era tan perfecta como pensaba y que tenía amistades de las que no tenía conocimiento.
Al final, el empeño de Kat dará su resultado y el lector se encontrará con un final inesperado, brutal, fruto de un exagerado deseo de venganza.
El libro está escrito desde el punto de vista de Kat quien, desde el principio, señala la enfermedad de la que se trata. Va apuntando aspectos de su pasado que conducen a pensar que vivió situaciones extremas, debido a sus ataques de violencia, que no puede olvidar.
Creo que la narración desde el punto de vista de Kat contribuye a introducir más suspense en el desarrollo de la trama. Su trastorno lo “contamina” todo. Te hace dudar sobre si su actuación es natural o aprendida desde su proceso terapéutico, por poner un ejemplo.
Nos encontramos ante un libro entretenido y que te mantiene en tensión. Lo recomiendo a las personas que les gusta el tipo de argumento que os he expuesto.
4/5
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Stéphanie, a sus 40 años, se ve obligada a regresar a casa de su madre tras perder su trabajo, su dinero y ser abandonada por su marido.
Stéphanie es recibida con los brazos abiertos, pero ambas, acostumbradas a sus rutinas y que no convivían desde hacía mucho tiempo bajo el mismo techo, tendrán que hacer acopio de paciencia para sobrellevar la nueva situación y poder vivir juntas.
Opinión
Sin trabajo, sin casa, sin pareja, y con un hijo pequeño, a Stéphanie no le queda otra que recoger lo poco que queda de su vida y volver a vivir a la casa de su madre.
Pero ya no es una niña y ambas mujeres tienen sus costumbres, su forma de vida organizada de cierta forma que puede chocar con la otra. Lo que para una es lo normal, para la otra es incomprensible. Y así comienza una convivencia llena de fricciones desde la hora del desayuno.
Pronto se da cuenta, que la búsqueda de empleo va a resultar mucho más difícil de lo que pensaba. Porque en los años que corren ser una mujer de 40 años, muy bien cualificada y con un niño pequeño, en lugar de abrirte puertas, las cierras porque “sales muy cara”.
Con su familia la situación no es mucho mejor. Se ha convertido de la noche a la mañana en “la apestada”. Son todas situaciones nuevas para las que no está preparada sobre todo emocionalmente.
En fin, esta es una película que refleja muy bien una realidad cada vez más extendida y habitual en muchos hogares. Me ha gustado mucho la variedad de personajes y lo bien caracterizados que están, de los cuales la madre es mi preferido con diferencia. Con más de un giro inesperado y las típicas situaciones llevadas al extremo.
Una película que aunque no te hace reír todo el rato, si que resulta muy agradable de ver, con momentos muy divertidos y que nos invitan a reflexiones muy interesantes sobre el tipo de vida que llevamos, como repercute en nosotros como personas y en nuestras familias.
La valentía de tres costureras durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial
Sinopsis
Paris, 1940. With the city occupied by the Nazis, three young seamstresses go about their normal lives as best they can. But all three are hiding secrets. War-scarred Mireille is fighting with the Resistance; Claire has been seduced by a German officer; and Vivienne’s involvement is something she can’t reveal to either of them.
Two generations later, Claire’s English granddaughter Harriet arrives in Paris, rootless and adrift, desperate to find a connection with her past. Living and working in the same building on the Rue Cardinale, she learns the truth about her grandmother – and herself – and unravels a family history that is darker and more painful than she ever imagined.
In wartime, the three seamstresses face impossible choices when their secret activities put them in grave danger. Brought together by loyalty, threatened by betrayal, can they survive history’s darkest era without being torn apart?
Opinión
“But how could any of us nowadays know what it feels like to have your country invaded? What it feels like to live with deprivation and fear, in the grip of foreign control, with the ever present threat of casual acts of brutality? How could any of us know how we´d respond?”
Harriet encontró, entre las pertenencias de su difunta madre, una foto de su abuela, Claire, acompañada de otras dos mujeres. La instantánea se ubica delante de una casa de costura en París. Esta lleva escrito el nombre de las tres jóvenes (Mireille, Claire y Vivi), así como el año en el que fue tomada, 1941.
Después de terminar sus estudios en empresariales, Harriet solicita un año de prácticas en una agencia de relaciones públicas especializada en moda y situada en París. Una de las razones que la empujan a elegir este destino es intentar descubrir algo más sobre la vida de su abuela. Su madre apenas le trasladó que esta era de origen francés.
Indagar en el pasado familiar
Cuando Harriet recibe la noticia de que su solicitud es aceptada, se traslada desde Inglaterra a París. Compartirá piso con una compañera de trabajo, Simone. Enseguida descubrirá que esta es nieta de otra de las mujeres que aparece en la foto, concretamente de Mireille. Parece que el encuentro de ambas es obra del destino.
Simone podrá contar a Harriet lo que le ha transmitido su abuela: estuvo trabajando como costurera, con las otras dos mujeres, en tiempos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Mireille luchó clandestinamente contra los alemanes, al tiempo que Claire caía enamorada de uno de ellos. Al enterarse de esto último, Harriet se siente disgustada con su abuela. Sin embargo, este sinsabor se disipará cuando conozca que esta, tras saber que el alemán la engañaba, entró a formar parte de la resistencia.
Cuando Simone va avanzando en lo vivido por las tres mujeres, Harriet advertirá que, sobre todo, Claire y Vivi sufrieron situaciones muy peligrosas y penosas: detención por la Gestapo, duros interrogatorios, torturas y traslado a campos alemanes. A pesar de todo esto, las mujeres demostraron una fortaleza, un coraje y una capacidad de resistencia excepcionales.
Harriet, de algún modo, se desestabiliza al conocer las intensas y traumáticas experiencias vividas por su abuela. Cree que estas se relacionan con el carácter depresivo de su propia madre.
El argumento del libro me parece interesante y, sobre todo, me enganchó en su segunda mitad. En esta se describen la detención y la experiencia de Claire y Vivi en el campo de concentración.
La labor de la resistencia francesa
Asimismo, la novela narra muy bien la labor de la resistencia francesa contra la ocupación de los alemanes, utilizando incluso mensajes en clave radiados por la BBC en Londres. También explica de forma vívida la devastación, racionamiento, crueldad, toques de queda, etc. que practicaron los alemanes en París.
En todo caso, la parte del argumento que se centra en Harriet, asociando la fragilidad psíquica de su madre con cambios genéticos que fueron inducidos por el trauma que sufrió Claire, no me acaba de convencer. Incluso Harriet cree que ella misma acarrea esa herencia.
Los personajes del libro son muy interesantes. Desde luego, se describe muy bien el coraje y la valentía de las tres costureras. Por su parte, Harriet también demuestra tener parte de ese carácter, pues se mantiene decidida en su camino de conseguir su trabajo en París. Sin embargo, cuando logra este objetivo, muestra su vulnerabilidad humana cuando se plantea si será lo suficientemente buena para el puesto asignado.
En definitiva, un libro interesante, bien escrito y que se hace dinámico porque alterna la narración actual de la vida de Harriet con la de su abuela en el pasado.
It is 1942 and Eva Adami has boarded a train to Auschwitz. Barely able to breathe due to the press of bodies and exhausted from standing up for two days, she can think only of her longed-for reunion with her husband Michal, who was sent there six months earlier.
But when Eva arrives at Auschwitz, there is no sign of Michal and the stark reality of the camp comes crashing down upon her. As she lies heartbroken and shivering on a thin mattress, her head shaved by rough hands, she hears a whisper. Her bunkmate, Sofie, is reaching out her hand…
As the days pass, the two women learn each other’s hopes and dreams – Eva’s is that she will find Michal alive in this terrible place, and Sofie’s is that she will be reunited with her son Tomas, over the border in an orphanage in Austria. Sofie sees the chance to engineer one last meeting between Eva and Michal and knows she must take it even if means befriending the enemy…
But when Eva realises she is pregnant she fears she has endangered both their lives. The women promise to protect each other’s children, should the worst occur. For they are determined to hold on to the last flower of hope in the shadows and degradation: their precious children, who they pray will live to tell their story when they no longer can.
Opinión
“I was born into a world that had forbiden my existence.
You see, ther were children born in Auschwitz.
And I was one of them”.
Eva Adami era una mujer de ideas fijas, cuando se le metía algo en la cabeza no había nada que la hiciera cambiar de idea. Un día decidió que ya tenía suficiente, que la vida en el gueto lejos de su marido, era insufrible. No aguantaba más sin saber de él, cómo estaba y si seguía vivo. Así que subió a un tren con destino a Auschwitz y fue a buscarlo.
La historia de Sofie era tan terrible como la de miles de judíos. Llegó a Auschwitz en busca de su hijo Tomas el cual dejó al cuidado de una prima y la última noticia que tenía de esta era que estaría también en este campo de concentración.
Desde antes de llegar Auschwitz, ambas mujeres entablan una amistad muy fuerte, basada primero en la necesidad de sobrevivir y apoyarse mutuamente en un medio tan hostil. Pero con el tiempo esta evoluciona y se convierte en algo mucho más fuerte, grande y bonito. En una amistad que las hace fuertes e inquebrantables y les ayuda a superar todo tipo de obstáculos y que es capaz de sobrevivir al tiempo e incluso a la vida.
Dos mujeres tan diferentes unidas en la desgracia
Eva tenía alma de artista y un espíritu soñador. Era una mujer alegre y soñadora que contagiaba con su energía a los demás. Optimista por naturaleza, creía sobre todo en la bondad de las personas por eso entendía que otro ser humano les estuviera haciendo algo tan terrible.
Sofie por el contrario era pragmática. Acostumbrada a superar obstáculos desde bien joven, este lugar era el más terrible en el que había estado, pero eso no iba a poder con ella ni la haría desistir de su objetivo. Tenía claro que por encontrar a su hijo haría hasta lo imposible.
Entre tanto horror como estaban viviendo en Auschwitz, alentada por sus compañeras, Eva decide recordar tiempos felices y narrarlos en voz alta. Lo que comienza como un simple entretenimiento, algo que las ayude de vez en cuando a evadirse de la realidad tan dura que están viviendo, pronto se convierte en una costumbre diaria y hasta necesaria.
The Child of Auschwitz se desarrolla en dos hilos argumentales diferentes, entre 1938 cuando Eva conoce a Michal el que luego se convierte en su marido y 1942 cuando la envían a Terezín.
Una historia de amor mezclada entre tanta desgracia
Este es un tema que siempre me conmueve mucho independientemente de todo lo que haya leído, visto o escuchado. Sin embargo, y quizás porque no lo esperaba, The Child of Auschwitz me ha emocionado muchísimo más si cabe.
Saber cómo era la vida de la protagonista antes de Auschwitz y en las circunstancias que conoció a Michal fue la parte que más disfruté y me gustó de la historia, que además tiene mucho que ver con el estilo y las novelas anteriores de esta autora.
La de Eva y Michal es historia de amor es tan especial y bonita como pocas y destaca más aún por el contexto en que es contada. Además, está escrita con tanta sensibilidad y corazón que aun después de haberla leído me sigue emocionando al recordarla.
The Child of Auschwitz es una novela muy dura, pero a la vez preciosa y que nos habla del poder tan grande que tiene el mantener la esperanza viva, pero también la amistad y el amor. Nos muestra cómo la fuerza de estas mujeres y la de millones como ellas, provenía del corazón. De la necesidad tan grande que tenían de sobrevivir a este horror para volver a ver a sus seres queridos, aunque fuese una última vez.
How do you start again when you lose the only love you’ve ever known?
When Nick’s wife Kerry falls ill and dies, he realises for the first time how fragile his happiness has always been, and how much he’s been taking his good life and wonderful family for granted. Now, he suddenly finds himself navigating parenthood alone, unsure how to deal with his own grief, let alone that of his teenage son, Olly.
In the depths of his heartbreak, Nick must find a way to navigate life that pleases his son, his in-laws, his family and his friends—while honouring what Kerry meant to them all. But when it comes to his own emotions, Nick doesn’t know where to begin. Kerry was his childhood sweetheart—but was she really the only one who could ever make him happy?
And in the aftermath of tragedy, can Nick and his son find themselves again?
Opinión
Desde que Nick conociera a Kerry siendo ambos unos adolescentes, no pudo separarse más de ella. Lo suyo no fue un enamoramiento pasajero, sino algo más grande y bonito que duró hasta cerca de dos décadas después, cuando una enfermedad se llevó a Kerry dejándolos solos a él y a su hijo Oliver.
Y aunque el último año había sido muy duro, ver cómo día tras día su mujer se debilitaba cada vez más, despedirse definitivamente de ella fue mucho más triste de lo que imaginó, pero a la vez sintió paz y alivio. Nick estaba roto por dentro y lleno de sentimientos encontrados pero tenía que seguir adelante sobre todo por su hijo.
Oliver reaccionó como era de esperar en un chico de su edad. Se encerró en sí mismo y decidió pasar pagina escondiendo la pena en un cajón bajo llave.
Ambos retoman su vida e intentan acostumbrarse a su nueva situación. Oliver lejos de casa quizás lo tuvo más fácil, pero para Nick volver a una casa fría y oscura cada día, en la que no lo esperaba nadie, era el peor momento del día con diferencia.
Hasta que un día, decide romper con la rutina y salir con los amigos. Lo pasa mejor de lo que esperaba y cree que aunque le cueste un tiempo, puede salir adelante y de alguna forma volver a ser feliz. Que no puede hacer nada por cambiar el pasado, pero él sigue vivo y con muchos años por delante para disfrutar de la vida.
Pero en un pueblo pequeño, donde todos se conocen de toda la vida y nadie da un paso sin que lo sepan los demás, pronto comienzan a hablar y algunos se creen con derecho hasta de decir lo que debería o no hacer teniendo en cuenta su situación.
Con el corazón roto y una situación económica precaria, Nick se siente abrumado y fracasado. Por cada paso que avanza en un sentido, retrocede el doble en otro.
The Light in the Hallway es una historia muy humana y conmovedora, que nos habla de las relaciones familiares y sus entresijos. Como pueden pasar de ser algo bonito y que fluye naturalmente a convertirse en un obstáculo que te paraliza como no seas capaz de plantarle cara.
Me ha gustado mucho el que la historia no se recree en la pena más allá de lo necesario y si se centre en quienes sobreviven a sus seres queridos. Amanda Prowse nos invita a reflexionar entre otras cosas, sobre el dolor ajeno ¿Quienes somos para juzgarlo? ¿Qué derecho tenemos a decidir sobre cómo debe vivir nadie? ¿Hasta cuándo debe estar de luto? O incluso a decidir cuándo es el momento adecuado para enamorarse otra vez. ¿Quienes somos para coartar la felicidad de los demás?
Me ha gustado mucho. Esta es una muy buena novela recomendable para todo tipo de público.
Having been married for over 40 years, 69-year-old Arthur Pepper is mourning the loss of his wife. On the anniversary of her death, he finally musters the courage to go through her possessions, and happens upon a charm bracelet that he has never seen before.
What follows is a surprising adventure that takes Arthur from London to Paris and India in an epic quest to find out the truth about his wife’s secret life before they met, a journey that leads him to find healing, self-discovery, and love in the most unexpected of places.
Opinión
”These young people would think they had their whole lives in front of them, unaware that it would pass in the blink of an eye”.
Arthur se ha quedado viudo después de 40 años de matrimonio con Miriam y se siente solo. Su vecina, Bernadette, lo ayuda a salir adelante en su período de duelo, llevándole comida y aconsejándole que se relacione con gente.
En todo caso, lo que sacará a Arthur de su soledad será su intención de descubrir los orígenes de un brazalete que encuentra entre las pertenencias de su mujer. Nunca lo había visto antes. Este brazalete tiene ocho colgantes. Uno de ellos representa a un elefante, que tiene una esmeralda incrustada. Grabado en él hay un número de teléfono. Arthur descubre que corresponde a algún lugar de la India. Sin dudarlo, hace la llamada telefónica y así conocerá que Miriam estuvo trabajando en aquel país como cuidadora de niños.
Cuando Arthur se hace consciente de que hay aspectos de la vida de su mujer que desconocía, toma la decisión de rastrear la procedencia del resto de colgantes, para comprobar si existieron más etapas de la vida de Miriam que esta le ocultó consciente o inconscientemente.
En ese recorrido, Arthur conocerá personajes curiosos y variados, como un hombre que tiene dos novias y no sabe por cuál decantarse, un joven atrapado en la dominación de un viejo escritor al que admira o un muchacho que pide en la calle y ha tenido problemas con las drogas.
En cuanto a Arthur, durante el proceso de descubrimiento del pasado de Miriam, sentirá emociones como los celos y la confusión. A veces deseará no haber iniciado esa tarea.
Entre los personajes del libro, también hay que señalar los hijos de Arthur y Miriam: Dan, que vive en Australia y tiene dos niños; y Lucy, divorciada y con un aborto natural a su espalda que le afectó mucho. Se observa que el fallecimiento de Miriam ha distanciado algo a la familia y Arthur se da cuenta de ello. Decidirá que tiene que poner solución a ese inconveniente comenzando por hablar más con sus hijos. De hecho, antes nunca se había comunicado convenientemente con ellos, esa era función de Miriam.
A lo largo del libro está siempre presente la adoración que Arthur sentía hacia Miriam, una mujer empática, que se dedicó al cuidado de su familia y que era muy querida por todos sus conocidos.
Respecto a Arthur, destaca que es confiado y buena persona. Por eso, cuando descubre que su esposa no le transmitió cuál fue su pasado, empieza a dudar y se plantea si ella fue tan feliz con él como parecía. (Y es que, a pesar de que ella conoció a prósperos y ambiciosos hombres, se decantó por la vida austera que tuvo con su marido.) Esta incertidumbre es la que marca el desarrollo de la narración y queda disipada de forma correcta.
Es una novela con personajes muy variados y que se describen muy bien. Su lectura se hace agradable e invita a reflexiones acerca de: cuál es el significado del matrimonio y la familia; las debilidades humanas, como la dependencia de otras personas o de las drogas; etc. Estos son asuntos serios, pero que no se tratan con dramatismo, no se ahonda con exceso en ellos.
Por último, quisiera destacar que esta novela, escrita en tercera persona, pone de manifiesto algunas paradojas de los humanos. La principal es la que se representa por una Miriam que decide “tranquilizar” su forma de vivir cuando conoce a Arthur; y este, en cambio, que siempre ha mantenido una vida pausada, empieza a viajar y conocer gente después del fallecimiento de aquella.
A man consumed by a meaningless life is going to do something he’s never considered doing before. He’s going to enjoy the day…
For hyper-particular publishing heir Jonathan Grief, the day starts like any other—with a strict morning fitness regimen that’ll keep his divorced, easily irritated, cynical, forty-two-year-old self in absolutely flawless physical condition. But all it takes to put a crimp in his routine is one small annoyance. Someone has left a leather-bound day planner with the handwritten title Your Perfect Year in his spot on his mountain bike at his fitness course!
Determined to discover its owner, Jonathan opens the calendar to find that someone known only as “H.” has filled it in with suggestions, tasks, and affirmative actions for each day. The more he devotes himself to locating the elusive H., the deeper Jonathan is drawn into someone else’s rich and generous narrative—and into an attitude adjustment he desperately needs.
He may have ended up with a perfect year by accident, but it seems fate has set Jonathan on a path toward healing, feeling, and maybe even loving again…if only he can meet the stranger who’s changing his life one day at a time.
For a good part of Daphne Witt’s life, she was a supportive wife and dutiful mother. Now that she’s divorced and her daughter, Ellery, is all grown up, Daphne’s celebrating the best part of her life, a successful career, and a flirtation with an attentive hunk fifteen years her junior…who happens to be her daughter’s ex-boyfriend.
Ellery is starting over, too. She’s fresh out of college. Her job prospects are dim. And to support her fiancé in med school, she’s returned home as her mother’s new assistant. Ellery never expected her own life plan to take such a detour. With no outlet for her frustration, she lets an online flirtation go a little too far, especially considering her pen pal thinks he’s corresponding with her mother.
As love lives tangle, secrets spill, and indiscretions are betrayed, mother and daughter will have a lot to learn—not only about the mistakes they’ve made but also about the men in their lives and the women they are each hoping to become.
Her head throbbed as she stumbled up the stairs. Music vibrating and the sound of partygoers fill her head as she walks into one of the dark, empty rooms. As she sits on the bed, she hears the unmistakable sound of the door locking behind her. She is not alone.
The body of college student Chrissie Lowe lies curled into a ball – long red cuts along her arms suggesting how she had met her death. Detective Jenna Alton is called in to investigate.
Purplish bruising on Chrissie’s upper arms and thighs make Jenna believe there is more to Chrissie’s death than others suspected, and she soon finds herself following the trail of the student’s last few moments, leading her to the scene of a party that had ended just hours before Chrissie’s body was found.
When Jenna hears reports that Chrissie was seen going into the bedroom of a college football star, she knows that finding out what went on behind that closed door could be the key to finding out how Chrissie ended up dead. But then another partygoer dies in an apparent accident at the campus gym just hours later, and Jenna is convinced the deaths are connected.
Facing a wall of silence from the student population, Jenna has to act fast to find the killer, but soon another student is found dead on the campus. As Jenna sends in one of her deputies undercover, she prays that she hasn’t just sealed his fate. Can she find the killer before any more lives are taken?
Gavin Scott’s marriage is trouble. The Nashville Legends baseball star has recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. His reaction to the revelation is the final straw for their already strained relationship. Thea asks for a divorce, and Gavin realizes he’s let his pride and fear get the better of him.
Welcome to the Bromance Book Club.
Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville’s top alpha men. With the help of their current read, a steamy Regency called Courting the Countess, the guys coach Gavin on saving his marriage. But it’ll take a lot more than flowery words and grand gestures for this hapless Romeo to find his inner hero and win back the trust of his beloved wife.
In early 1800s England, Jess Beauchene has spent most of her life in hiding and always on the move in an effort to leave her past far behind her. But when she learns the family she thought had died just might be alive and in danger, she knows her secrets can only stay buried for so long.
Derek Thornbury loves the past, which has led him to become an expert in history and artifacts. He knows Jess has never liked him, but when she requests his help deciphering the clues laid out in an old family diary, he can’t resist the urge to solve the puzzle.
As Jess and Derek race to find the hidden artifact before her family’s enemies, they learn as much about each other as they do about the past. But can their search to uncover the truth and set history right lead to a future together?
A trip to Italy reignites a woman’s desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex
To cool-headed, fastidious Pricilla Messing, Italy will be an escape, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that’s starting to feel like one long decline.
Rescued from the bedside of her difficult mother, forty-something Cilla finds herself called away to Rome to keep an eye on her wayward teenage niece, Hannah. But after years of caregiving, babysitting is the last thing Cilla wants to do. Instead she throws herself into Hannah’s youthful, heedless world—drinking, dancing, smoking—relishing the heady atmosphere of the Italian summer. After years of feeling used up and overlooked, Cilla feels like she’s coming back to life. But being so close to Hannah brings up complicated memories, making Cilla restless and increasingly reckless, and a dangerous flirtation with a teenage boy soon threatens to send her into a tailspin.
With the sharp-edged insight of Ottessa Moshfegh and the taut seduction of Patricia Highsmith, The Worst Kind of Want is a dark exploration of the inherent dangers of being a woman. In her unsettling follow-up to Catalina, Liska Jacobs again delivers hypnotic literary noir about a woman whose unruly desires and troubled past push her to the brink of disaster.
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.
And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships.
Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library it leads him on a quest unlike any other. Its pages entrance him with their tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities and nameless acolytes, but they also contain something impossible: a recollection from his own childhood.
Determined to solve the puzzle of the book, Zachary follows the clues he finds on the cover – a bee, a key and a sword. They guide him to a masquerade ball, to a dangerous secret club, and finally through a magical doorway created by the fierce and mysterious Mirabel. This door leads to a subterranean labyrinth filled with stories, hidden far beneath the surface of the earth.
When the labyrinth is threatened, Zachary must race with Mirabel, and Dorian, a handsome barefoot man with shifting alliances, through its twisting tunnels and crowded ballrooms, searching for the end of his story.
You are invited to join Zachary on the starless sea: the home of storytellers, story-lovers and those who will protect our stories at all costs.
‘She touched the photograph in its gilt frame that was always on her desk, of a young, thin woman with very short hair and a baby in her arms. She had one last story to tell. Theirs. And it began in hell on earth.’
It is 1942 and Eva Adami has boarded a train to Auschwitz. Barely able to breathe due to the press of bodies and exhausted from standing up for two days, she can think only of her longed-for reunion with her husband Michal, who was sent there six months earlier.
But when Eva arrives at Auschwitz, there is no sign of Michal and the stark reality of the camp comes crashing down upon her. As she lies heartbroken and shivering on a thin mattress, her head shaved by rough hands, she hears a whisper. Her bunkmate, Sofie, is reaching out her hand…
As the days pass, the two women learn each other’s hopes and dreams – Eva’s is that she will find Michal alive in this terrible place, and Sofie’s is that she will be reunited with her son Tomas, over the border in an orphanage in Austria. Sofie sees the chance to engineer one last meeting between Eva and Michal and knows she must take it even if means befriending the enemy…
But when Eva realises she is pregnant she fears she has endangered both their lives. The women promise to protect each other’s children, should the worst occur. For they are determined to hold on to the last flower of hope in the shadows and degradation: their precious children, who they pray will live to tell their story when they no longer can.
When Nick’s wife Kerry falls ill and dies, he realises for the first time how fragile his happiness has always been, and how much he’s been taking his good life and wonderful family for granted. Now, he suddenly finds himself navigating parenthood alone, unsure how to deal with his own grief, let alone that of his teenage son, Olly.
In the depths of his heartbreak, Nick must find a way to navigate life that pleases his son, his in-laws, his family and his friends—while honouring what Kerry meant to them all. But when it comes to his own emotions, Nick doesn’t know where to begin. Kerry was his childhood sweetheart—but was she really the only one who could ever make him happy?
And in the aftermath of tragedy, can Nick and his son find themselves again?
Some things you can never escape. I should know. I’ve been running away for fifteen years, and now I’m right back where I started…
Skye Turner’s family fell apart the day her twin sister Ginny died. Everyone in their tiny community in the Scottish Highlands accepted it was an accident, but more than one person in town is haunted by a secret from that night…
Skye left after the funeral, believing her mother blamed her for Ginny’s death. Skye should have taken care of Ginny, should have been there to stop her falling from the cliffs that night. Over the years, she’s barely spoken to her mother, until the day she receives a phone call asking her to return home.
As soon as Skye arrives in her childhood home, she knows something isn’t right. Her mother has kept the bedroom she shared with her sister like a shrine, Ginny’s clothes and diaries gathering dust, as though her mother thinks Ginny might come back. And there are whispers in town that Ginny wasn’t alone when she died…
Skye is desperate to find out the truth, but her mother just wants her family back together. As Skye begins to unravel everyone’s lies, she realises the truth might tear her family apart for good…
My Mother’s Silence is a twisty and emotional novel about the bonds between mothers and daughters, and what happens when we hide things from those we love the most. Fans of Diane Chamberlain, Liane Moriarty and Kerry Fisher will be gripped.
At the end of her rope, single mom Lily Anderson is determined to move her rebellious children in the right direction. That means taking away their cell phones, tablets, and computers—at least temporarily—and moving to the house where Lily grew up in the rural town of Comfort, Texas. But Lily has a bigger challenge than two sulking kids.
The house comes with Mack Cooper, high school teacher and handsome longtime renter. The arrangement: just housemates. But Mack’s devoted attention to the kids starts to warm Lily’s resistant heart. Then Lily finds an old leather-bound book in which five generations of her female ancestors shared their struggles and dreams. To Lily, it’s a bracing reminder about the importance of family…and love.
Now it’s time for Lily to add an adventurous new chapter to the cherished family journal—by embracing a fresh start and taking a chance on a man who could make her house a home.
Sometimes you have to hit the bottom before you can float to the top.
Maria Birch is seventy years old and, for her, every week is the same.
On Monday, she does her weekly shop. On Tuesday, she goes for a blow-dry. On Wednesday, she visits the laundrette. But Thursday is her favourite day of all – everything hurts less on a Thursday.
Every Thursday Maria walks to her local café. Waiting for her at one of the red gingham-topped tables is Albie Young, a charming man with a twinkle in his eye and an impressive collection of tweed flat caps. Every week, the pair share a slice of marble cake and a pot of tea.
Except, one week, Albie doesn’t turn up.
When Maria finds out what has happened, her perfectly ordered life is ripped apart at the seams. Suddenly, she is very lonely. Without her Thursday friend – her only friend – she no longer has the energy to circle the weekly TV listings, she has no reason to leave her apartment, no reason to laugh.
Then she discovers that Albie isn’t who she thought he was, and she’s left wondering if she knew her friend at all. But Albie has left behind a legacy – a handwritten list of wishes he never got the chance to complete.
Maria is resigned to facing the rest of her days heartbroken and alone. But fulfilling Albie’s wishes could hold the key to her happiness – if only she’s able to look past his secret…
Detective Carrie Flynn’s sister Hattie was kidnapped when they were both little girls. After the police failed to find the culprit, Carrie swore she would become a detective and solve the case herself. But the face of the man who snatched Hattie is a blank in her memory…
Twenty years later, eleven-year-old Melanie Wilson is reported missing, a quiet child who longs to fit in, just like Hattie… Carrie has to fight off memories of her lost sister to concentrate on the case, but she soon finds grainy black-and-white footage of Melanie boarding a boat and vanishing. She discovers Melanie has been taken to Pomona, a deserted island, almost inaccessible from the city. But who took little Melanie, and why?
Then the police receive a desperate cry for help from another young girl: I gave you his name, told you where to find him, but you did nothing. My blood is on your hands. Carrie traces the call to the same docks where Melanie was last seen. Now she has a second missing child to save.
But the sound of the broken voice has unlocked something in Carrie. The blurred face of her sister’s kidnapper is starting to become clearer…
Carrie is sure the lost girls are in terrible danger – and that there’s a link between her sister’s disappearance and this case. To find Melanie, Carrie must unleash the memories she’s buried for years. And if she uses her own demons to bring Melanie home, can she finally find out what happened to her sister?
Yetu holds the memories for her people&;water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners&;who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone, save one&;the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu.
Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities &; and discovers a world her people left behind long ago.
Yetu will learn more than she ever expected about her own past&;and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they&;ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity&;and own who they really are.
After being pronounced Queen of Faerie and then abruptly exiled by the Wicked King Cardan, Jude finds herself unmoored, the queen of nothing. She spends her time with Vivi and Oak, watching reality television, and doing odd jobs, including squaring up to a cannibalistic faerie.
When her twin sister Taryn shows up asking a favour, Jude jumps at the chance to return to the Faerie world, even if it means facing Cardan, who she loves despite his betrayal. When a dark curse is unveiled, Jude must become the first mortal Queen of Faerie and break the curse, or risk upsetting the balance of the whole Faerie world.
When a group of friends in Mason, Missouri, decide to start a monthly supper club, they get more than they bargained for. The plan for congenial evenings—talking, laughing, and sharing recipes, homemade food, and wine—abruptly changes course one night when one of the women reveals something startlingly intimate. The supper club then becomes Confession Club, and the women gather weekly to share not only dinners but embarrassing misdeeds, deep insecurities, and long-held regrets.
They invite Iris Winters and Maddy Harris to join, and their timing couldn’t be better. Iris is conflicted about her feelings for a charming but troubled man, and Maddy has come back home from New York to escape a problem too big to handle alone. The club offers exactly the kind of support they need to help them make some difficult decisions.
The Confession Club is charming, heartwarming, and inspiring. And as in the previous books that take place in Mason, readers will find friendship, community, and kindness on full display.
Daniel Mayrock loves his wife Jill…more than anything.
Dan quit his job and opened a bookshop.
Jill is ready to have a baby.
Dan is scared; the bookshop isn’t doing well. Financial crisis is imminent.
Dan hasn’t told Jill about their financial trouble. He’s ashamed.
Then Jill gets pregnant.
This heartfelt story is about the lengths one man will go to and the risks he will take to save his family. But Dan doesn’t just want to save his failing bookstore and his family’s finances—he wants to become someone.
Dan wants to do something special.
He’s a man who is tired of feeling ordinary.
He’s sick of feeling like a failure.
Of living in the shadow of his wife’s deceased first husband.
Dan is also an obsessive list maker, and his story unfolds entirely in his lists, which are brimming with Dan’s hilarious sense of humor, unique world-view, and deeply personal thoughts. When read in full, his lists paint a picture of a man struggling to be a man, a man who has reached a point where he’s willing to anything for the love (and soon-to-be new love) of his life.
The woman’s golden hair is spread out beneath her on the bed of leaves where she’s fallen, her beautiful blue eyes open wide. The police are calling it a random attack, but Jessie Tucker isn’t so sure –she’s seen this crime scene before… she was the victim.
Twelve years ago, Jessie Tucker was attacked as she made her way home from an outdoor concert. She still walks with a limp from that night, and every day since has been a struggle to rebuild her life. The police told her she was unlucky – that she was safe after they charged a local man for the crime. But Jessie has never managed to shake the feeling that therewas someone else in the park that night… someone she knew.
But then Margaret Kincaid’s murder file lands across her desk, and Jessie knows she can’t keep silent any longer. Margaret’s wounds so exactly match her own its spooky – but Jessie’s attacker is in prison, and Jessie has never met the victim. What links her to Margaret Kincaid, and why did the attacker let one woman live, and the other die?
I wish it didn’t have to be this way. I willed the thought to fly to you, so you’d know how hard it was to leave you behind. That was the night I lost you, and gained myself.
Born in a honeysuckle-choked garden deep in the forest, Aphrodite – young, sensitive and beautiful – learns her true purpose in the world moments before she’s cast out of the only home she’s ever known.
Haunted by loneliness, she begins a journey to fulfill her destiny. It is a path that will lead her into the arms of four very different men – a dreamer, a fighter, an artist and a lost soul. All human, all flawed and all on their own journeys of painful self-discovery.
But could it be the secrets she left behind – and the one person she thought she had lost forever – that hold the answers to the questions she’s seeking? For while life may take you unexpected places, truth will bring you home…
An unputdownable, life-affirming epic, filled with ordinary yet extraordinary people, The Beginning and End of Us is a magical story in which you will recognise yourself, from the sweetness of a rain-drenched first kiss to the terrible pain when you realise it’s finally over.
As a child, Vicky Hall never had the sort of family she wanted. The least important person in her new step-family, ignored by her mother in favour of her two younger half-siblings, Vicky was always an afterthought. Sitting alone at her graduation ceremony at the age of twenty-one, she vows to create her own family and her own life, one which is full of the love and attention she has always craved.
When Vicky meets William and falls pregnant in Greece that summer, it isn’t planned. But the two of them believe they can make it work, showering their child with the love which they believe should be enough.
But when her son Theo is two, Vicky leaves him in the care of her mother-in-law, walks out of her front door and drives to a hotel where she takes a room for the night. She doesn’t return.
Author of bestseller “Everyone is yawning An autumn celebration from bestselling author-illustrator Anita Bijsterbosch! A book with half pages that hide and reveal how Sammy and Hob enjoy the season. With a focus and the child’s world. Learning about seasonal activities, weather and friendship.
Opinión
Ha comenzado a nevar y Sammy quiere salir a jugar en la nieve con su amigo Hob. Pero antes, tanto él como Hob deben abrigarse bien para no coger frío y enfermar. Una vez están fuera, disfrutan de la nieve para deslizarse, patinar e incluso realizar un muñeco de nieve.
Es un libro bonito pero muy sencillo. Las imágenes son coloridas y representan muy bien la época del año sobre la que trata. Muestra muchas de las actividades que se pueden realizar en la nieve, sin embargo, creo que es muy básico. Me esperaba algo más.
